Baby Names

Yesterday I read that Gwenyth Paltrow and Chris Martin decided to name their baby Moses. Not a very common name (mind you I did see a famous Moses in Toronto last month). This got me thinking about names … there are many names that really don’t seem fitting for young children today. It’s almost like the name trend – sometimes names are popular, and other times they are not. There are several grandmothers named Gladys, but not many newborns. Similarly if a baby is named Mildred, that little girl will always be picked last for teams in gym class. But maybe with celebrities naming their children unpopular (to soon become popular) names, there will be a resurgence of old people names. I would like to see the following names come into the top 10 baby girl names for 2006: Florence, Evelyn, Dorothy, Ethel, Edna, and Dolores.